Last year was the first year for our keeper auction league (5x5 roto), and we all went way overboard at the start. I spent $50 on Vlad, $47 on Arod, and $34 on Beltran in the first half hour, so I spent the next 3 hours doing nothing but slotting all the players into every team's spreadsheet (since I was auctioneer and commish, I got to keep it all organized:). I ended up with 8 players to get and $8 left at the end and grabbed Lidle (uggh), German (uggh), Astacio (ugghh), Grieve (uggghhh), Sanchez, Casey, Ausmus, and Teixeira (the pride of my draft, I get to keep him for $3 this year.

This year I'll definitely be exercising more patience at the beginning, and not getting sucked into early bidding wars. I think we all learned a lot, and the 4 new owners joining the league (expanding from 12 teams to 16) should have fun with the learning curve.
